"The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself." -John Kenneth Galbraith

"The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be." -Bruce Lee

Friday, March 23, 2012

"The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent." -Gore Vidal

"For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time." -Brian Eno

"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." -George Washington

"If any good songs are going to come out of World War Three, we'd better start writing them now." -Tom Lehrer

"The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government." -Jim Hightower

Monday, March 05, 2012

When I started doing this I didn't think it'd take more than a hundred signs or so, seen over and over again, for people to realize what a deal I was getting in terms of free political advertising.

After all, when people see the same sign every day for a week or two, it must occur to at least some of them that the 50,000 drivers in front of them and the 50,000 drivers behind them are seeing it too. After a while these numbers begin to add up.

Admittedly, using McLuhan is a bit of a dog-whistle for the intelligentsia, but I figure the average driver should be able to get it. If not, then their commute's just a tad more surreal. No harm in that...